Were there any women pastors, preachers, deacons, etc. in the early church?

Question

cheekyrel: I've read that story too.

Answer 1

There are some Women mentioned in the bible but none of them were pastors or preachers. In fact the Christian Church wasn't even started until Jesus died. It was only after His death and Resurretcion that we were able to be called Christians or preachers or deacons, ect.

Answer 2

i think of you're able to understand back while those scriptures happened the lifestyle of the day became that the ladies did proceed to be silent in fact in the comparable section on the instant it probable is the comparable. My Pastor is doing a chain of hero's in the Bible or maybe in the old testomony God used women. Esther is one occasion Debra yet another. additionally I easily have been examining in the Bible that their have been greater beneficial than !2 disciples and a few have been women. Peter became married. i became raised in the Quaker Church that each and each physique are equivalent I easily have had 2 women Pastors and that i think of they have been great. One became a Husband & spouse group. as long as they coach the be conscious Of God wisely i think of that's ok. I easily have been a Sunday college instructor for over twenty years i'm a woman.

Answer 3

No, women's role in the church is low-key on other services as
"... Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:" Rom 16:1
as she wrote the message to Romans from Corinthos.

Also in 1Tim 3:2
"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, "
not a wife of one husband so it means only men should be pastors, preachers, deacons, etc

Answer 4

No.Not in the ancient Nation of Israel.The man was responsible for offering up the sacrifices and the spiritual welfare of his family.Also only the men from the tribe of Levi were to be priests.
And in the early Christian congregations of the first century CE,it was also the man's position as head to provide for the spiritual needs of his family.Only men were given the role of elders to shepherd the Christian congregations.
It is not part of Jehovah's arrangement for women to take headship over men.1Cor.11:3;
Of course,when apostacy crept in to the Christian congregations after the death of Christ and the apostles,many apostate teachings polluted the pure worship.Among these were the doctrine of the trinity,hellfire,and the idea that it is acceptable for women to be ordained as priests and deacons.

Answer 5

If you are trying to follow what the Bible says, the existence of female preaches or pastors in days following Christ's resurrection is insignificant. What matters is what the Bible (and, therefore, God) prescribes for us to follow (description never indicates prescription). I'm sure that's not what you want to hear, but biblical nonetheless.

Answer 6

Scripture speaks of a Deaconess. It is thought that because woman were baptized that they need other women to do this as they were completely submerged and they did not want the men to see the women with their clothes sticking to them when they were wet so they used women to baptize the woman and children and the men baptized the men and boys. This was good because it kept the women from embarrassment and it kept the men from temptation. Other than that women had smaller roles in the Church as for the governing of them.

Answer 7

Phoebe is described as a Deacon, and Priscilla is called an Apostle.

Answer 8

There were women deacons, called deaconesses (Romans 16:1). I don't believe there were any women pastors or elders. There were women prophets, called prophetesses.

Answer 9

Yes there was a female pope in the middle ages she pretended to be a man she was only found out when she gave birth in the street in front of hundreds of people I'm pretty sure she was burnt at the stake

Answer 10

They were forbidden to preach in the new testament which means that they shouldn't preach now. When I was younger, I believed women could preach because my grandmother was a preacher. Now I believe differently.